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Xyrmellon · Jan 30, 2017

Backstory: Every week, Shipwreck from Cheap Ass Gamer goes to Target and posts images of the clearance deals they have. Last week, he noticed that they had copies of the recent Garth Brooks boxset. Alot of copies. Like dozens.

That got the ball rolling....

Now it's turned into a thing, with people posting image after image from their local Targets of this fiasco. Every location has at LEAST 50 copies, with some people reporting a couple hundred. How much money did Target invest in this, and how much are they going to
lose? It's rather mind-boggling. Shipwreck himself just posted that if every Target has 50 copies of this at MSRP that's 2.5 million bucks of product.

Post your Garth photos! I'll get the ball rolling, and rope me in if old.

Sorry, have trouble direct image posting on mobile.

Robot Pants · Jan 30, 2017

Let me know when there's a Chris Gaines sale. Then I'll consider this

pelicansurf · Jan 30, 2017

Who would even buy that?

Macho Madness · Jan 30, 2017

Thread doesn't deliver

robotrock · Jan 30, 2017

Lol amazon advertised the fact they got him on their streaming service so hard

how much is the box set on clearance?

ZombiePlatypus · Jan 30, 2017

What even is that? A discography set comprised of a bunch of his albums and CDs? A live concert dvd??

And, who knows, what's the country music demo like? Maybe they'll gobble it up?

Plinko · Jan 30, 2017

Didn't help that he has a greatest hits collection already that is much cheaper.

StylesClash · Jan 30, 2017

You had me worried it was something political

bigkrev · Jan 30, 2017

Yeah, Shipwreck RT my picutures- my Target in New Jersey has over 200 of them strewn throughout the store

I'm sure there are parts of the country where this sold just fine, and Target is a national chain, but maybe you shouldn't be sending hundreds of country CDs to states that voted for Hillary?

King of GAF · Jan 30, 2017

I think that they will somehow survive this.

andythinkpad · Jan 30, 2017

Lol why is this a deal?

bulletbill10 · Jan 30, 2017

I got both that and his greatest hits album from amazon (as an alexa deal) for about 1.50 each. That was a physical and digital copy.

edit: oops, not the boxset. Just his two recent individual cd's. Still thought it was an unusually good deal for new cds.

milkham · Jan 30, 2017

I thought it was some kind of Garth Brooks chocolate when I first saw the photos of it.

SeanC · Jan 30, 2017

Brooks fans shop at Wal Mart not Target.

DJ_Lae · Jan 30, 2017

I came in here to say that they had already backtracked on the whole Target Canada thing, but this sounds exactly like why they failed here - overstocking of useless items, not stocking things people wanted.

xDUMPWEEDx · Jan 30, 2017

Someone accidentally added a 0 or put a decimal point in the wrong place when placing the order.

PantherLotus · Jan 30, 2017

SAVE YOU A CLICK: Target misjudges market, buys too many of an item. NeoGAF'er predicts imminent bankruptcy.

Nafai1123 · Jan 30, 2017

Amazon Echo ALWAYS has his new album as a daily deal too.

zma1013 · Jan 30, 2017

Quick, someone buy all of these and open a store that only sells these and nothing else.

M.W. · Jan 30, 2017

It's no Jerry Maguire, but it forms a nice wall.

Edit: Damnit, beaten!

rpmurphy · Jan 30, 2017

I saw that display stand quite a while ago and it was a bit amusing how it did not appear to be selling at all.

BannedEpisode · Jan 30, 2017

There are nearly 700 copies within 5 miles of my house.

teruterubozu · Jan 30, 2017

PantherLotus said:
SAVE YOU A CLICK: Target misjudges market, buys too many of an item. NeoGAF'er predicts imminent bankruptcy.

It's a Target exclusive. They actually produced too many.

Flo_Evans · Jan 30, 2017

Looks like a box of chocolates.

Maybe I will pick one up for valentines day...

Wonder how disappointed my wife would be

MIMIC · Jan 30, 2017

Put them in the boots section.

RinsFury · Jan 30, 2017

bigkrev said:
Yeah, Shipwreck RT my picutures- my Target in New Jersey has over 200 of them strewn throughout the store

I'm sure there are parts of the country where this sold just fine, and Target is a national chain, but maybe you shouldn't be sending hundreds of country CDs to states that voted for Hillary?

Does Garth Brooks support Trump?

Jeevesmeister · Jan 30, 2017

You know whose album you don't see in Target? That's right.

CHRIS GAINES IS TRIPLE PLATINUM, BROTHERS. GIMME A HELL YEAH

oneils · Jan 30, 2017

The dude has sold 160million albums. I don't know that we can safely assume that this is a mistake. He is easily in the top 20 all time.

xDUMPWEEDx · Jan 30, 2017

Garth Brooks right now:

Jackpot · Jan 30, 2017

Who's Shipwreck? What's a Garth Brooks boxset?

thespot84 · Jan 30, 2017

target has 1,800 stores. A box set like that might cost $3-4 for packaging, a full color cd at those scales might cost $0.40, so let's say there are for CDs, we're hovering around $5 per unit in hard costs.

That's $450,000 if target indeed put 50 in each store. Sure, it was probably a poor decision and the artist wasn't quite as bankable as they though, but that's not a huge invested for big retail runs like that.

blame space · Jan 30, 2017

i thought he had a deal with Walmart

painey · Jan 30, 2017

I was just in 2 yesterday in Minneapolis and didn't see any of these. I don't even know who the guy is, though.

Shaanyboi · Jan 30, 2017

"HEY GUYS, THERE'S A HOT NEW MEME ON THE INTERNET!"

teruterubozu · Jan 30, 2017

oneils said:
The dude has sold 160million albums. I don't know that we can safely assume that this is a mistake. He is easily in the top 20 all time.

It would've been brilliant if it was 1997.

antibolo · Jan 30, 2017

Target is such a shit company they didn't even last a full year when they came here in Canada.

The Real Abed · Jan 30, 2017

StylesClash said:
You had me worried it was something political

Seriously. Don't scare us with clickbait titles like this.

Jeevesmeister · Jan 30, 2017

I've been to fourteen different Targets in the Tri-State Area, brothers! I can't find a single got-danged Chris Gaines CD anywhere! This boy is really blowing up, and I'm hootin' and hollerin' all the way to the jukebox!

Hell yeah Gaines!

Alphahawk · Jan 30, 2017

I think the only Garth Brooks song I've ever heard is Friends in Low Places and The Thunder Rolls, and that was one time for each.

It's insane how big the guy is and yet most people probably couldn't hum anything by him.

PrankT · Jan 30, 2017

I don't get it.

PeakPointMatrix · Jan 30, 2017

What is a Garth Brooks?

Talonz · Jan 30, 2017

They should have known better. Audio CD's have been on their deathbed for awhile now.

Count Dookkake · Jan 30, 2017

And it under sold,
And it under sold!

WillyFive · Jan 30, 2017

Did they add an extra zero when ordering?

Chie Satonaka · Jan 30, 2017

The Chris Gaines jokes in here are slaying me.

Lulubop · Jan 30, 2017

Man, what's up with the beard/ no mustache thing. Not a good look

Crimsonclaw111 · Jan 30, 2017

PrankT said:
I don't get it.

Target secures exclusive deal
Produces trillions of copies
Nobody will take them

rtcn63 · Jan 30, 2017

Robot Pants said:
Let me know when there's a Chris Gaines sale. Then I'll consider this

True story- Chris Gains is Chris Redfield's Tinder alias post-Code Veronica

Tom Nook · Jan 30, 2017

It will probably end up in places like Ross or Marshall later for $10 or something.

blame space · Jan 30, 2017

i would buy it for $10

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